Washboiler



April 3, 1928.

P. E. GOLDMAN WASHBOILER Filed Jan. 10, 1927 Patented Apr. 3, 1928 UNITED STATES PAUL E. GOLDMAN, OF PITTSBURGH, PENNSYLVANIA.

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Application filed January 10, 1927. Serial No. 160,064.

This invention relates to laundrying apparatuses and more in particular to Washboilers.

The primary object of this 1nvent1on 1s to provide a wash-boiler having a special basket placed therein for the purpose of collecting the goods to be washed. Another ob ect of this invention'is to provide in such a washboiler a clothes-basket which may be readily suspended from the top edge of the boiler, and within the latter, to enable the draining of most of the water absorbed by the washgoods prior to passing the latter through a clothes-wringer or hanging them on a clothes-line. Still another object of this invention is the provision of a laundrying apparatus which is simple in construction and operation and which can be manufactured at relatively low price. Additional features and advantages of this invention will appear in the following description considered in connection with the appended drawing forming a part of this application, and in which: I

Fig. l I is a side elevation showing the clothes-basket in its lowered and raised position within a wash-boiler of ordinary design shown in dot and dash lines.

:2 is a top plan view of Fig. 1.

Fig. 3 is a perspective view showing one end of the clothes-basket and one of the lifting-handles therefor.

Reference being had to the drawing, my invention consists of a metallic Wire clothesbasket 1 of suitable shape to be placed inside of a waslrboiler 2 of usual design. At both ends of said clothes-basket are hingedly mounted the lifting-handles 3, of special design and which are shown especially in Fig. 3 to be made up of two side-arms 4 which are held in proper spaced andparallel relation by means of the spacer-bar 5 and the through-pin 6 of the grip-handle 7. These lifting-handles are hinged to the upper frame-wire 8 of the clothes-basket by passing said frame-wire through apertures 9 suitably located in the side-arms 4. Both side-arms are notched outwardly to provide hooks 10 whereby the basket may be'hung on the top edge 11 of the wash-boiler. Crosswires 12 are fastened at both ends of the clothes-basket to prevent the lifting-handles from swinging down into the clothes-basket and hold them in a slightly inclined upward position shown in solid lines in Fig. 1, to

afford ready access to them when the basket is to be lifted out of the wash-boiler.

lVhen washing goodsQthey are placed into the clothes-basket which is then lowered into the wash-boiler. properly boiled, the operator lifts up the clotlws-basket and hangs it up on the top edge of the wash-boiler by means of the hooks 10 thereby allowing a substantial portion of the water absm-bed by the clothes to drip back into the wash-boiler. After suiiicient chaining the clothes are removed from the basket and passed through a clotheswringer or hung directly on a clothes-line, as may be desired.

\Vhile I have illustrated and described herein the present eml'iodiment of my invention, and one which I have found by actual use to bevel-y practical, it may be found de sirable after continued experience to make slightchanges in the construction and arrangement of the details of my invention, and I intend to include in this application all such changes as fall within the scope. of the appended claims.

I claim:

l. In combination with a wash-boiler, a clothes-basket comprising an upper-frame and a basket-body made of reticulated wires depending therefrom; a lifting-handle posi tioned at each end of said clothes-basket and hingedly mounted on said frame; hookmembers positioned on said handles and adapted to engage the top-edge of said washboiler for suspending said clothes-basket therein, and transversely disposed stops secured on said topsframe for limiting the inward swing of said handles into said clothesbasket. 7

2. In combination with a wash-boiler, a clothes-basket comprising an upper-frame and a basket-body made of reticulated Wires depending therefrom; a lifting handle positioned at each end of said clothes-basket and hingedlymounted on said frame; outwardly disposed hook-members formed integrally withsaid handles and adapted to engage the top edge of said wash-boiler for suspending said clothes-basket therein, and transversely disposed horizontal stop-members secured on said upper-frame for limiting the inward swing of said handles into said clothesbasket.

In testimony whereof I aflix my signature.

' PAUL E. GOLDMAN.

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